Pizza the Hutt ate himself. To death!
Poll: Would You Eat Human Flesh?
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Pizza the Hutt ate himself. To death!
Forget human flesh--would you eat fried grasshoppers?
"The protein-rich insects taste like a cross between french fries and eggplant." Yummy!
"The protein-rich insects taste like a cross between french fries and eggplant." Yummy!
You know, I've been thinking about it. I've seen a few documentary on overpopulation, food shortage, and the ratio of resources consumed to produce a pound of insects vs. beef or pork.
I think it's interesting, because the taboo is completely cultural. For many societies, it's perfectly normal to eat insects. For Westerners, the very idea is chilling. On the other hand, we gorge on shrimps and prawns, and what are they if not water bugs?
So, who knows? Maybe I'll get a snack of fried crickets, and I might like it!
I think it's interesting, because the taboo is completely cultural. For many societies, it's perfectly normal to eat insects. For Westerners, the very idea is chilling. On the other hand, we gorge on shrimps and prawns, and what are they if not water bugs?
So, who knows? Maybe I'll get a snack of fried crickets, and I might like it!
Then how do they know when they've been injured? Or differentiate between helpful and harmful stimuli?
Apparently, they don't. They just continue with normal activity, even after they've been hurt.
Oddly enough, the Canadian Senate's Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs has produced a short paper on the subject.
I can't personally envision it as being all that conceptually different to eating a cow or sheep or whatever... Now, eating insects or spiders; that's a whole other ballpark.
I refer the honourable gentleman to the reply I gave some moments ago.
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No.
I'd rather starve.
I'd rather starve.
And yet every day, millions of parents change their babies' dirty diapers and clean up their poo. If I tried to do that even once (not that I plan to), it would make me puke.
Oysters and snails, oysters and snails . . .
Interestingly enough, we discussed this very topic over lunch at work a couple of weeks ago.
We did expand on the topic and took it a little further, to the point of deciding if you would "pre-emptivley" eat someone before they had the chance to eat you.
From there it evolved into a matrix of who would eat who under varying circumstances: already dead, still alive but you know they wouldn't eat you, still alive and you know they would eat you, etc.
I would eat human flesh to survive.
We did expand on the topic and took it a little further, to the point of deciding if you would "pre-emptivley" eat someone before they had the chance to eat you.
From there it evolved into a matrix of who would eat who under varying circumstances: already dead, still alive but you know they wouldn't eat you, still alive and you know they would eat you, etc.
I would eat human flesh to survive.
I would eat it to survive, but oddly enough, if it really came down to it, I'd be more concerned about the arm-long list of diseases humans can carry and how it would affect me, rather than the moral aspects of it.
I would need to find myself in the specific situation to know for sure if I were able to kill in order to survive or if I'd rather behave like a scavenger and try to find a corpse fresh enough to be cooked and eaten.
It's not the happiest of thoughts and I'd rather never find out at all, to be honest. What a horrible scenario that would be.
Insects I'm not sure about. I guess it would really help if they didn't -look- like insects anymore after being cooked, then I'd gladly give it a try.
I would need to find myself in the specific situation to know for sure if I were able to kill in order to survive or if I'd rather behave like a scavenger and try to find a corpse fresh enough to be cooked and eaten.
It's not the happiest of thoughts and I'd rather never find out at all, to be honest. What a horrible scenario that would be.
Insects I'm not sure about. I guess it would really help if they didn't -look- like insects anymore after being cooked, then I'd gladly give it a try.
I voted 'No, not even if I was starving' but the more I think about it, I suppose if I was in a survival situation my vote may change at the time. I hope I'm never in that situation and I wouldn't be tempted to kill someone to eat, hopefully they'd already be dead... Hell, I don't know, it's a horrible thing to think about, but the Kevin Bacon and Shatner tags gave me a great chuckle this morning.
Yes. I would eat the flesh of scotpens because he stole a topic I have actually wanted to do for awhile.